Proverbs 2:21:3Prov.2.21.W3TAB

אָ֑רֶץ

arets

land

Transliteration
A-rets
Extended
AA-rehts
IPA
/ˈʔaː.rɛts/

Meaning by language

English
land

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Result
אָ֑ + רֶץ
a + rets
arets

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Tsade Sofitfinal form of Tsade — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    A-rets

  2. clause

    ki-ye-sha-RIM yish-ke-NU A-rets

  3. sentence

    ki-ye-sha-RIM yish-ke-NU A-rets u-te-mi-MIM yi-va-te-RU VAH

Exegesis

In the first clause, the subject yesharim {יְשָׁרִים | yə-šā-rîm} ‘upright ones’ takes the Qal imperfect yishkenu {יִשְׁכְּנוּ | yiš-ke-nû} ‘will dwell’, with aretz {אָרֶץ | ʾā-reṣ} ‘land’ as its direct object.

Root and etymology

ʾ-r-ṣaleph–resh–tsade

earth, land

In contextProverbs 2:21

For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will stay there.

About this coordinate

Proverbs 2:21:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Proverbs 2:21, so the Hebrew word אָ֑רֶץ (arets) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Prov.2.21.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.2.21.W3.S1) and character.